Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Black's Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Smithsonian, George B. Pearce in 1930; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180198: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 11.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Boavus occidentalis Marsh 1871 snake USNM 12980. complete left ramus with teeth, quadrate, maxilla fragment, 70+ vertebrae with ribs
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"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris Marsh 1871 squamates USNM 12844, anterior frontal fragment
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